Pałac Górków w Krakowie, siedziba Wojewódzkiego Urzędu Ochrony Zabytków

Górków Palace in Cracow, seat of the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments

Photo: Marcin Konsek | Wikimedia Commons © CC BY-SA 4.0

On January 26, 2024, Katarzyna Urbańska was appointed to the post of Malopolska Regional Monuments Conservator. The architect was associated with the office from 2006 to 2021 — first as an inspector, then as head of the Department for the Inspection of Immovable Monuments. However, the cooperation ended in 2021 with her dismissal from the post by Monika Bogdanowska, then Malopolska Regional Monuments Conservator, who cited "a divergent view of the work in the office" as the reason. The last [...]

On January 26, 2024, Katarzyna Urbańska was appointed to the post of Malopolska Regional Monuments Conservator. The architect was associated with the office from 2006 to [...]

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Michał Rejner, zwycięzca 2. edycji konkursu OKNOPLAST FOR ART

Michal Rejner, winner of the 2nd edition of the OKNOPLAST FOR ART competition

Photo: melograf.pl | Illustrations courtesy of the competition organizers

We have met the winners of the second edition of the international competition OKNOPLAST FOR ART, organized by OKNOPLAST in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK! The contest was an opportunity for artists from the European Union to express their creativity by creating artistic works using a window supplied by OKNOPLAST. [...]

We have met the winners of the second edition of the international competition OKNOPLAST FOR ART, organized by OKNOPLAST in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary [...]

projekt mieszkań modułowych

modular housing project

© Maria Hofman

Los Angeles is currently facing one of its most serious problems - a housing crisis due to a shortage of available building lots. With each passing year, rents are rising and real estate prices are becoming unaffordable for many residents. In response to these challenges, Buildner held its sixteenth Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge for innovative and practical projects to help solve a variety of housing needs. Maria Hofman, a student at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw [...]

Los Angeles is currently facing one of its most serious problems - a housing crisis due to a shortage of available building lots. With each passing year, rents are [...]

praca Katarzyny Jamioł została nagrodzona w międzynarodowym konkursie

Katarzyna Jamioł's work was awarded in an international competition

© Catherine Jamiol

It is in the south of Europe that the problems of adaptation to climate change become most apparent. Adaptation to these changes became the subject of the work of Katarzyna Jamiol, a student at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. The work was awarded in the A4TC international competition. [...]

It is in the south of Europe that the problems of adaptation to climate change become most apparent. Adaptation to these changes became the subject of the work of [...]

Kolobrzeg, or two worlds

Multinationals

Mateusz Zmyślony, 09 of April '24
bulwary wzdłuż wielkiej, sztucznie dosypanej plaży robią wrażenie

The boulevards along the large artificial beach are impressive

Kolobrzeg was formerly called Kolberg. A city with history, because strategically located. At the mouth of the sizable Parsęta River - and therefore, as is usual on this shore of the Baltic Sea, an important natural harbor. As the Parsęta is one of the few significant watercourses between the estuaries of the Vistula and Oder, there has long been a fortress guarding the crossing here. So, once again, the influence of the river on the development and attractiveness of the city can be studied [...]

Kolobrzeg was formerly called Kolberg. A city with history, because strategically located. At the mouth of the sizable Parsęta River - and therefore, as is usual on this [...]

Elewacja południowa – część mieszkalna

South elevation - residential part

© Aleksandra Adamska, Zofia Gancarczyk, Klaudia Kochanowska, Krystian Kubat

Modern societies are facing the challenge of an aging population, which brings many challenges, including the problem of isolation and marginalization of the elderly. A group of students from Warsaw University of Technology, Aleksandra Adamska, Zofia Gancarczyk, Klaudia Kochanowska and Krystian Kubat, decided to address this issue through the project "Aging Together: Seniors at the Heart of Urban Renewal." Their innovative idea was shortlisted for the international competition "Beyond [...]

Modern societies are facing the challenge of an aging population, which brings many challenges, including the problem of isolation and marginalization of the elderly. A [...]

Circular memory

Piotr Średniawa, 08 of April '24
Pamięć cyrkularna

Circular memory

© Piotr Średniawa

In the beginning of spring I saw the premiere of the film "Jaszowiec, forgotten modernity", directed by Roman Kaluga-Wierzchoslawski and produced by the Green Horses Foundation and Kamil Sliwka — NOX Studio, which was under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, SARP, the Chamber of Architects of Poland. The media patron is Architektura & Biznes. [...]

In the beginning of spring I saw the premiere of the film "Jaszowiec, forgotten modernity", directed by Roman Kaluga-Wierzchoslawski and produced by the Green Horses [...]

Urban villa tailor-made

08 of April '24
Dom jednorodzinny w Bazylei, fasada frontowa

Single-family house in Basel, front facade

Photo credit: Valentin Jeck

The perspective of the street is marked by a row of small two-story houses with attics from the 1920s covered with tile. Among the faded beiges, reds and pinks of the plastered facades, one's attention is unexpectedly drawn to the pure white and the face of the building coming slightly, nomen omen, ahead of the line. [...]

The perspective of the street is marked by a row of small two-story houses with attics from the 1920s covered with tile. Among the faded beiges, reds and pinks of the [...]

Nowe budynki staną tuż obok tych wybudowanych w ramach osiedla Yacht Park w 2020 roku

The new buildings will stand right next to those built as part of the Yacht Park development in 2020

© courtesy of PHN

Gdynia's Maritime Downtown will expand with more apartment buildings. Eight residential buildings with services will be built on the extremely attractive land left by the former Dalmor fishing company. FS&P ARCUS of Warsaw is responsible for the project. [...]

Gdynia's Maritime Downtown will expand with more apartment buildings. Eight residential buildings with services will be built on the extremely attractive land left by [...]

Teatr Muzyczny w Poznaniu — wizualizacja poglądowa, widok z ronda Kaponiera

Musical Theatre in Poznan - overview visualization, view from Kaponiera traffic circle

© Atelier Loegler Architects

The new Musical Theater in Poznań, designed by Atelier Loegler Architects, is expected to be ready in three years. A contractor for the work, which will cost 100 million zlotys more than planned, has finally been selected. The first new theater building in Poznan after the war will stand in a very prominent location. [...]

The new Musical Theater in Poznań, designed by Atelier Loegler Architects, is expected to be ready in three years. A contractor for the work, which will cost 100 million [...]

Modernist Rainbow cinema will undergo a metamorphosis

Kacper Kępiński, 05 of April '24
Wizualizacja Kina Tęcza po remoncie

Visualization of Rainbow Cinema after renovation

© Biuro Architekt Kaczmarczyk SC | Andrzej Wajda Film Culture Center.

The Rainbow Cinema, located in a building whose history dates back to 1929, will undergo modernization. The renovated building will house the Andrzej Wajda Film Culture Center. Will the Żoliborz cinema retain its modernist [...]

The Rainbow Cinema, located in a building whose history dates back to 1929, will undergo modernization. The renovated building will house the Andrzej Wajda Film Culture [...]

PAROC PREMO 90: nowy wymiar stabilności i energooszczędności dla dachów płaskich

PAROC PREMO 90: a new dimension of stability and energy efficiency for flat roofs

© Paroc Polska

Roofs are zones of great responsibility. To provide a durable and safe substrate while maintaining the thermal performance of the envelope, PAROC engineers have developed a new generation of stone wool slabs with unprecedented properties on the market: PAROC PREMO [...]

Roofs are zones of great responsibility. To provide a durable and safe substrate while maintaining the thermal performance of the envelope, PAROC engineers have [...]

Hey ha!

A column by Jakub Szczęsny

Jakub Szczęsny, 05 of April '24
Jakub Szczęsny

Jakub Szczęsny

Photo by Victoria Tomaschko

I don't know about the people reading this, but I used to feel strange when I left the house on late September evenings, feeling that it was July. Now as I write these words, my senses tell me that it is June. Only that something keeps contradicting that sensation. The wind moves the leaves, which hum in a non-June way. The ginkgo biloba under my house is starting to turn yellow, and the ground is dry, as it would be after a long, hot, rainless summer, not after April's downpours. [...]

I don't know about the people reading this, but I used to feel strange when I left the house on late September evenings, feeling that it was July. Now as I write these [...]

aksonometria

axonometry

© Karolina Trocinska, Kacper Klaus, Paulina Kapica

Karolina Trocinska, Kacper Kulas and Paulina Kapica were among the finalists in the international Meditation Roofs competition, which aimed to create a rooftop meditation space in an urban environment. [...]

Karolina Trocinska, Kacper Kulas and Paulina Kapica were among the finalists in the international Meditation Roofs competition, which aimed to create a rooftop [...]

Beautiful views from a footbridge to nowhere

Kacper Kępiński, 04 of April '24
Most nad Wisłą

Bridge over the Vistula River

Photo: Kacper Kepinski

Warsaw's boulevards have been connected by the capital's first pedestrian and bicycle bridge. Enjoying great popularity among walkers, the crossing is one of the longest of its kind in the world. Unfortunately - the bridge connects the banks, but not the neighborhoods located on them. Even after the designation of the crossings, which are several years overdue, all functional shortcomings will not disappear. [...]

Warsaw's boulevards have been connected by the capital's first pedestrian and bicycle bridge. Enjoying great popularity among walkers, the crossing is one of the longest [...]

Neurodiversification of public space

Magdalena Milert, 04 of April '24
Neurodywersyfikacja przestrzeni publicznej

Neurodiversification of public space

© Magdalena Milert

How can designing public spaces that take sensory diversity into account help create more accessible and welcoming cities for all? See an analysis of the impact of the urban environment on social well-being and suggestions for integrating sensory needs into the urban planning process. [...]

How can designing public spaces that take sensory diversity into account help create more accessible and welcoming cities for all? See an analysis of the impact of the [...]

widok z lotu ptaka

bird's eye view

© Grupa 5 Architekci

Architects from Warsaw-based Group 5, in cooperation with the Estonian office Sirkel & Mall, won 2nd prize in the competition for the design of the development of the Tallinn Fishing Port! They were preceded only by a local studio - Arhitekt Must [...]

Architects from Warsaw-based Group 5, in cooperation with the Estonian office Sirkel & Mall, won 2nd prize in the competition for the design of the development of [...]

Martyna Kotulek, absolwentka Politechniki Śląskiej została wyróżniona w międzynarodowym konkursie Golden Sand Waterfront

Martyna Kotulek, a graduate of Silesian University of Technology, was awarded in the international Golden Sand Waterfront competition

© Matilda Kotulek

Martyna Kotulek, a graduate of the Silesian University of Technology, was awarded in the international Golden Sand Waterfront competition organized by TerraViva. Her project is based on the creation of a "collage" of different zones of space with a unique character. [...]

Martyna Kotulek, a graduate of the Silesian University of Technology, was awarded in the international Golden Sand Waterfront competition organized by TerraViva. Her [...]

Ruukki wprowadza nowe rozwiązanie poprawiające środowisko akustyczne

Ruukki introduces new solution to improve acoustic environment

Ruukki Polska is offering customers in the construction industry a new acoustic environment solution. Ruukki® Acoustic, a building envelope solution specifically designed for large areas and difficult acoustic environments, provides an optimal result for various types of commercial buildings right from the start. The solution [...]

Ruukki Polska is offering customers in the construction industry a new acoustic environment solution. Ruukki® Acoustic, a building envelope solution specifically [...]

NOWODVORSKI LIGHTING Sp. z o.o.

Minimalist design - LED BAR

NEWODVORSKI

04 of April '24
BAR LED to lampa wisząca o minimalistycznym designie

BAR LED is a pendant lamp with a minimalist design

© NOWODVORSKI

BAR LED is a pendant lamp with a minimalist design. Its austere look is based on the combination of discreet ropes with a horizontally positioned oblong fixture. It is available in three lengths - 120, 150 and 180 cm and has the option of height adjustment up to 160 cm, by using a suitably designed soffit for this purpose. [...]

BAR LED is a pendant lamp with a minimalist design. Its austere look is based on the combination of discreet ropes with a horizontally positioned oblong fixture. It is [...]

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